The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-25
G. FRANIs TRAINS FAIRY TALE.
A New Hallucination TO the Effect that Lin.
COINS Rody IInA Reen Stolen.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, October l3--Georgo
Francis Train has made the startling discovery
that the remains Of abraham Lincoln are not
in the sarcophagns at the tomb here, as the
people of the nation are ted, and believe, but
that they are in the haads Of some unprinci-
pied shylock, who is holding them for spccu-
lation, and that inside Of ten years they willi
be offered for Sale 10 some enterprising dino
museum man to bC carted around the country
as n curiosity. This afternoon Mr.. Train, in4
company with Mrs. BelYa A. Lockwood and "a (
number Of radical rclormcrs, who have been at
tending the industrial reform convention, Wis
tied the tomb OF tho martyr president.
At the monument there is an Old man whose
duty il is to relate to visitors the history or
the sacred relics there kept, and who neyerj
fails TO relate the story Of the attempt madel
in 1876 to steal the body from the cas!set. Mr.
Train listened to the story through. and thenl
informed the narrator that the stealing was al
Job, and that the body that rested in security
in the grave OF stone was not the remains Of
Abraham Lincoln, but a duplicate and q sham.l
The party was dumbfOuuded at the startlingi
assertion, even from this startling man, and i'll
was the chief topic Of conversation during the
remainder Of the trip. A reporter called on
MIR, Train shortly after he returned from the
cemetery and asked what reasons there were;
for believing the body in the tomb was noGi
that Of Lincoln. He replied that he
had every reason in the world, ex-
cept positive evidence, to prove that
body-snatchers had removed the body Of Linz
coin, ana replaced III Win inc dummy WHlcnl
was identified by the guard of honor last spring
as being the original Mr.. Train claims that
the entire scheme for robbing the grave was
planned by detectives, The monument asso-
citation was informed Of the plot by a secreti
service man, who overheard the planning Of the
scheme in a Chicago saloon. He claims the
detectives who were with the members Of the
association the night Of the robbery were in
cahoots with the robbers, and that the mem
bcrs of the monument association present were
innocent stOol-pgeons.
IL il Trains theory that two men who were
captured were paid for going TO the penltenti-
ary, and that tho detectives were aware wheni
the deed was committed that they could not
be sent to prison for longer time than ono
year II was done for the reward, and that
would come by bartering the body.
A gentleman present at the moment whom
Train made known his outlandish theory, was
in the secret service under General Henry II.
Darlington during the war, and says thar the
idea is worth investigating. and that the facts
should be brought out
George Francis Train received the following
telegram tonight from Fulton Gardner, editor
oil the Western Newsman, No. 15S South Clark
street, Chicago: Your paper No suppress
ed on the street. Newsboys arrested police
destroying papers. What win we do" To.
which Train replied. Congratulations; free
speech suppressed, and. Of course, free press
killed Sheol checkmated. REIMBURSEMENT
is possession"